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The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh
When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their …
Comstock Women
When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, …
Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh
When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their …
Monumental Lies
A playful embrace of tall tales and exaggeration, Monumental Lies explores the evolution of folklore in the Wild West.Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West …
Roar and the Silence
Nevada s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, …
Cornish Studies
The twentieth volume in the acclaimed paperback series ...the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. Cornish Studies has …
Folklore of Cornwall
By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions. Folklore studies internationally have long …
The Folklore of Cornwall
By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions. Folklore studies internationally have long …
Short History of Virginia City
Founded in 1859, Virginia City quickly became world famous for its extraordinary prosperity. Over the next two decades, the mines of "e;the Richest City on Earth"e; yielded …
The Folklore of Cornwall
By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions. Folklore studies internationally have long …
Virginia City and the Big Bonanza
Virginia City
Spent cartridges. The pieces of an original Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle. Shards of a ceramic pot, stained red. For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a …